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Annual Review of Public Health

Volume 24, 2003

Review Article

Geographic Information Systems and Public Health

Thomas C. Ricketts¹
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Affiliations: Department of Health Policy and Administration and Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health, Services Research, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7590; email: [email protected]
Vol. 24:1-6 (Volume publication date May 2003) https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.100901.140924
First published as a Review in Advance on December 02, 2002
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▪ Abstract

Geographic information systems (GIS) and analyses based on GIS have become widespread and well accepted. GIS is not the complete solution to understanding the distribution of disease and the problems of public health but is an important way in which to better illuminate how humans interact with their environment to create or deter health.

Keyword(s): geography, health services, policy analysis, research

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